Les Mikesell wrote:
The biggest searchable, up to date collection of open source software project descriptions is probably http://freshmeat.net, but once you locate an interesting project you might want to see if you can find an RPM-packaged version at EPEL, rpmforge, etc. for easy installation and updates instead of trying to build from source yourself.
I use http://rpm.pbone.net/ to search for CentOS/RHEL and Fedora packages.
It says that there is matlab 7.4.0 rpm for Fedora 5 and 10-15.
Fedora 5 version should be good for CentOS 5 , and Fedora 12 package for CentOS 6.
Link for Fedora 5 package: http://apt.unl.edu/apt/fedora/redhat/5/i386/unl/RPMS/